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- Big Ten GIS Conference 2025 Wrap-Up Report Report of the fifth annual Big Ten GIS Conference, hosted virtually on April 11, 2025.
- FAST for Subject Terms Workgroup Final Report Final report of Geodata Pilot Collection Working Group
- Subject Headings and Keywords Assigned by BTAA-GIN Participants Reviews the Subject and Keyword field for library-held scanned maps in the BTAA Geoportal
- BTAA-GIN Geodata Pilot Workgroup Report Final report of Geodata Pilot Collection Working Group
- Geodata Collection Groundwork Phase Report This document reports on the progress of the BTAA-GIN Geodata Collection as of February 2025.
- Building the Geospatial Future Together—The NSDI Strategic Plan 2025-2035 As the BTAA Geospatial Information Network (GIN) continues to grow and evolve—particularly through our Geoportal infrastructure rebuild—it’s important to reflect on how our regional efforts align with national geospatial priorities.
- Geodata collection roadmap Tracking page for the BTAA-GIN Geodata Collection
- Technology Strategic Plan 2025-2026 Details the rationale and vision for a Technology Stack upgrade
- Urban Base Layers Curation Plan Overview of the project to collect geospatial data from major cities.
- The BTAA-GIN Geodata Collection Implementation Plan (2024-2026) This document provides technical details, roadmap and staffing needs for implementing the BTAA-GIN Geodata Collection.
- Harmful Language Statement for the BTAA Geoportal Statement of potential harmful language in the BTAA Geoportal content
- BTAA GIS Conference 2023 Wrap-Up Report The BTAA GIS Conference is a virtual event organized by geospatial information users and educators in Big Ten institutions.
- Geodata Collection Strategic Plan (2024-2026) This document describes the BTAA-GIN Geodata Collection Strategic Plan for 2024-2026, including an overview of the expanded scope and the technology building blocks needed to meet this vision.
- Tracking rates of change of Open Data Portals An informal investigation into the number of datasets that turn over in ArcGIS Open Data Portals
- Original Content Working Group Final Report Activities and recommendations by the Original Content Working Group
- Action Plan Land Acknowledgement Action Plan
- Land Acknowledgement Working Group Final Report Review of activities by Land Acknowledgement Working Group
- Content Organization Model How we organize records in the BTAA Geoportal
- How to Standardize the Creator Field Using faceted vocabularies for the creator field in the BTAA Geoportal
- Resource Lifecycle The Resource Lifecycle describes how we manage resources from curation to ongoing maintenance.
- Continuation Proposal 2021-2024 Proposal for Funding for Years 7, 8, & 9 (July 2021- June 2024)
- Curation Priorities for the BTAA Geoportal Prioritization of collections by theme, administration and technology.
- Diverse Collections Working Group Summary Report Recap of the Diverse Collections Working Group activities.
- Licensed Data Implementation Working Group Final Report Decisions, recommendations, and activities by the Licensed Data Implementation Working Group
- Impact Report May 2020 A review of the BTAA Geospatial Data Project impacts and outcomes.
- Web Services ArcGIS Online Pilot Final report of the ArcGIS Enterprise Organization Working Group (a.k.a the Web Services Working Group)
- A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the BTAA This document provides a description of the technology behind a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). It also gives a background for the BTAA Geospatial Data Project (GDP), and some of the current challenges this project faces that could be remedied by a shared, or common, SDI.
- Licensed Data for the BTAA Geoportal A proposal for adding licensed data in the BTAA Geoportal, prepared for the Strategic Leadership Group's in person meeting
- Web Services Report An analysis and recommendation for implementing web services in the BTAA Geoportal
- Continuation Proposal 2019-2021 Proposal for Funding for Years 5 & 6 (July 2019 - June 2021)
- Staff Time for Ephemeral Resources Comparing Staff Time for Maintaining Access to Ephemeral Resources vs Archived Data
- Analytics Working Group - Final Report Analytics recommendations for the BTAA Geoportal
- Best Practices for ArcGIS Hub Open Data Portals This guide presents publishing workflows that improve the stability of data identifiers and maximize benefits from metadata of resources on ArcGIS Hub / Open Data Portals.
- BTAA GDP Accession Guidelines for ArcGIS Open Data Portals Accession Guidelines for ArcGIS Open Data Portals, including eligible sites and records, harvest schedules, and remediation work.
- User Personas for the BTAA Geoportal Framework of user types for the BTAA Geoportal
- Continuation Proposal 2017-2019 Proposal for Funding for Years 3 & 4 (July 2017 - June 2019)
- CIC Geospatial Data Discovery Project Charter The initial charter for the BTAA-GIN, originally called CIC Geospatial Data Discovery Project
- Proposal for a Geospatial Data Discovery Project Across the CIC Original proposal for the first year of the program
- Collection Development Policy BTAA Geoportal Collection Development Policy
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